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- From: colin@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning)
- Subject: How can I get > 1.2Meg onto a 3.5in floppy?
- Message-ID: <colin.715409127@marsh>
- Sender: news@cujo.curtin.edu.au (News Manager)
- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 04:45:27 GMT
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- Hi,
- I make a bootable floppy by:
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- 1) put 3.5 in disk in drive fd0
- 2) type "newfs /dev/rfd0a floppy3" ( and the switch to set the revs )
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- this only gives me 1.2Meg, even though newfs says it's 1.5Meg.
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- Now I'm *really* lost.
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- Please help.
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- Colin.
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- Colin [colin@cs.curtin.edu.au]
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